REPORT 



ON THE IMMIGRATIONS OF SUMMER RESIDENTS IN 

 THE SPRING OF 1905. 



INTRODUCTORY 



In submitting this Report we have first to thank the 

 Members of the B.O.C. for the confidence in us which 

 they have displayed, and to express the hope that a study 

 of the Report and the facts brought to light therein will 

 prove that the enquiry, if carried on for future years, is 

 likely to lead to very important results. 



We have to record our sincere regret that Mr. W. Eagle 

 Clarke was unable, owing to the many other calls upon his 

 time, to join the Committee, but he has very kindly given 

 us the benefit of his practical experience in these matters, 

 for which we tender our sincere thanks. 



All the Members of the B.O.Club will, we are sure, join 

 us in recording our sincerest thanks to those observers all 

 over England and Wales who have so generously laid the 

 foundation of this Report by filling in the Schedules, and 

 have thus enabled this enquiry to be carried out. 



We hope that all those who so kindly helped us in 1905 

 will continue to do so in 1906 should the enquiry be carried 

 on, and that additional observers may be forthcoming to 

 help us. More recorders are especially desired in Cornwall, 

 Kent, Suffolk, Norfolk, Lincoln, and in the Midlands. The 

 more regular the observations the more useful are they for 

 the purposes of this enquiry ; but at the same time isolated 

 records are often of great assistance in confirming other 



